It is understood that the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce and the Employers Federation will conduct another survey next month to determine a new recommended wage adjustment for members.
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The IMF specifically suggested the French permit " wage adjustments " to accompany a shorter workweek, " in order to prevent labor costs from soaring and employment from declining further ."
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After several meetings between the parties, a tentative agreement was reached without impasse on September 13, 2007 which included a state allocated cost-of-living wage adjustment during each year of the agreement.
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Michael Wong Chun-wai, staff side chairman of the Disciplined Service Consultative Council, said the proposed increase had taken into account wage adjustment levels in the private sector in 1996 / 97.
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Adding the New Jersey counties drags that wage adjustment down to 33 percent above the national average, because the labor costs in the added hospitals are significantly lower than in the city.
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This is why some economists argue that a little bit of inflation, say 3 percent, is a useful lubricant for relative wage adjustment, because it makes it easier to disguise real wage cuts.
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In April 1919, members of the Telephone Operators'Department who worked for the New England Telephone Company went out on strike after the Ryan Commission had failed to act on demands for wage adjustments.
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It also mentions the limitations of what can be achieved by the internal devaluation-internal devaluation can result in the " interesting trap of no-downward wage adjustment as the flexible part of earnings vanishes ".
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The strike is the first in a series of actions the Histadrut plans to take in a bid to win a cost-of-living wage adjustment and to protest government plans to cut the 2003 budget.
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The strike was the first in a series of actions the Histadrut plans to take in a bid to win a cost-of-living wage adjustment and to protest government plans to cut the 2003 budget.
